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A collection of 73 issues

Meta's Muse will book things for your customers. The hard part is the first booking.

Meta launched Muse, a personal AI agent that orders, fills out forms and books on your behalf. Repeat purchases are easy for it. The real question for brands and service companies is what it picks when there is no history.

My scheduled Claude Code routine failed three weeks running: what agentic workflows need that a written lesson doesn't give them

An AI automation that couldn't unblock itself, scheduled in a context where the one thing it needed was impossible. Why agents must know what their execution environment can do — and why a well-written lesson with no owner changes nothing.

I shipped a magazine section in a day. The work was deciding what not to index.

Generation is cheap now, so the scarce input is refusal. What I noindexed, what I labelled, and what I took back out of an AI-assisted editorial launch.

Two thousand three hundred and ninety ways to say twenty-nine things.

Hundreds of free-text business descriptions already contained the site's service taxonomy — written in 2,390 spellings. Counting it beat designing it, and the evidence had to be graded before it was published.

The audit found eleven missing receipts. Nine of them existed.

An automated gap report compared bank lines against an index that only knew one of several folders. The fix wasn't a smarter matcher — it was an index that could prove it saw everything.

OpenAI built a whole browser for the agent. The agent didn't need one.

Claude Cowork just got a built-in browser, seventeen days after OpenAI switched off Atlas. The improvement isn't the browser — it's that there are finally two modes, and knowing which job belongs in which one.

I scheduled a weekly check that could never run.

An automated SEO check that needed a browser on my laptop, scheduled in the cloud. Designing a measurement window that can honestly report nothing was the real work.

The brand book didn't exist. The website had been writing one for years.

Three design systems reverse-engineered from live sites in one week. The trick isn't reading the theme settings — it's measuring what actually gets painted.

Everything returned 200. Four leads still went nowhere.

Three things broke on my own projects this week and not one of them produced an error. Silent failures are the expensive kind — here is what I changed so the systems shout.

I planned a two-week content sprint. Ten minutes of querying killed it.

I was sure the site needed more pages. Ten minutes of querying the live system showed the pages were already there — and the real constraint was one level further back.

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